Performance Art and Migration

Action Art / Live Art / Performance Art artists and resources dealing with migration, immigration, emigration, border and nomatic issues.

The issue of borders, migration and immigration is already a crisis around the world. Currently there are roughly 281 million migrants in the world, and that is probably somewhat of an under-count. Wars, dictators, ethnic persecution, climate change, economics, greed and fear fuel an intense unbalance for those in need. Unfortunately, as wealth around the world is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands this situation is getting worse.

Climate change forces us to question borders as a construct – how these imaginary lines dictate who eats and who doesn’t. Artists around the world are questioning borders, exploring nomadic culture, uprising against colonial powers who have taken resources and exploited labor only to disappear and close off when issues appear. Borders are a control mechanism, both internal and external which affect us all.

Performance Art – migrations, borders, immigration, nomadic living, and exile
Actions, Performances, Shows and Artists

Institutes and Research Organizations

performingborders is a curatorial research-platform that explores the relations between live art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders.

Books, Articles, Writings, Museums, and other

Not all of these resources are specific to the topic at hand, but most are part of the tapestry of place and migration that make up these issues.

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